I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends!

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength