For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

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

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.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.