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.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.