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

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.