Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

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

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

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

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

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 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.