I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.