Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world