My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.