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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.
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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it's an addictive feeling.
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Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.