I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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

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

I can take criticisms but not compliments.