I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.