Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.

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

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?