Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.