As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying maybe not a bike.

There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

I think your life informs your art.

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