It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.