I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.