I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a little bit of an entitlement. Like, "Why won't you follow me or write me back?" Well, if I write you back, then I have to write everyone back.

I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.

I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.