You know hearts these days are cheap.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.