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I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.'

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.