Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.

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

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us