~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

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

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.