A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

Smile pretty and watch your back

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -