My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

I love Duolingo. I'm learning Spanish on it, and it's such a good way to pass time on flights or the bus.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.

A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.