No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.