Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

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

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

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

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.

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.