So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.

My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.