I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.

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

A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.

Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.

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

I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.