As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.