I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

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

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

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

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.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.