As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.