Nowadays, everybody assumes, when the wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Deadlines and things make you creative.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.