I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.