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

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

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.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow