I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.