Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.