I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.

Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.