I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

It takes some silence to make sound.