If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.

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.

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.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

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

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

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