The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.