My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.