Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.