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.

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

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

For some reason I can articulate my feelings better in song. I wish it would come out better in regular life too though. The issue is that I struggle with is that I'm worried about what people think, or how they'll react to whatever it is I have to say, and obviously that's not a good thing.

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

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.