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.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

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.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

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

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.