As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.