Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.