I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

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

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.