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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.