Shower the people you love with love.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

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

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

Music is like a huge release of tension.

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.