Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.