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.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.