I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.