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.

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.

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.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

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 always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.