I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.