Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.