“I used to want to be fully observational, but I’m just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.”

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

Follow your heart and you won’t get lost.

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn’t really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

I can write songs, but I’m not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I’m not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.

I’m a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I’m not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that’s what yoga’s about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that’s happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I’m saying.

The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they’re very thankful.

It’s usually kids that normally don’t have a chance to get to meet each other because they’re separated by millions of different things.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I’m thankful for that. I haven’t lost my head, and I haven’t lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you

Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God’s Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.