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

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

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.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

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.