In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Love is touching souls.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.