I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But I don't look at songwriting as having the ability to necessarily do that today.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.