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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.

A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

My songs are like my kids.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.