Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

It takes some silence to make sound.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.