There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

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

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

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

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?