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

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.

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.

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 also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.

Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.

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