The beauty of life is not knowing.

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.