I never listened to country music growing up.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.