I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.