There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

I think music is another language.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.