I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.