A concert is always like a feast day to me.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.