I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects