I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

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

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

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

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.

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.