Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

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?

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.