People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.