When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

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.