It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

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

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.