I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.