Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

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

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

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

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.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting