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

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

Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.