I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

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

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.