I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.