Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.

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.

When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

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

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

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