I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

Don't force things to happen. You can work towards things and keep yourself open to things, people, and opportunities, but you can't and shouldn't try to control everything. Also, if you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.