When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

I think your life informs your art.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.