Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

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

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.