People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'll spend maybe four days out there if I can, just completely immersed - like where I don't bathe or brush my teeth for a few days, just get up and make coffee and experiment until the sun goes down.

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.