In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.