Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

I like fish and a lot of seaweed, but I don't eat bread or dairy or anything like that. It's kind of like in the macrobiotic world. I'm just a healthy eater who loves to juice.

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

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

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.