It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.