I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.