What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

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

It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

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