The key to change is to let go of fear.

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

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 am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

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

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.