It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.