Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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