It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Im really good at writing almost hits.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.