I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption - shopping, eating, getting high, whatever - anything to not "feel" what is really going on.