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

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 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.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.