I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

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

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

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.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.