I’m not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I’d rather be figured out.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That’s just copying what someone else did.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

As you get older, you don’t really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn’t even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn’t know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last...