What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

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

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.