Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

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

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

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

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.