I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I didn't want to do something typical.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.