Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

I think music is another language.

When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you." When I wrote it, I thought, "This isn't going to sound very folky. I don't think it's going to go with mandolins and banjos." Then he played the loop for me and it sounded right.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.