As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy.

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.

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.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.