I was a functional addict.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.