I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record