It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.