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.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

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.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.