People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

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.

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.