I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.