I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.