If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Work ... is redemption.

I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

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

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.