Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

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

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?