I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

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

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it