I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.

Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.