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

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

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

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

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.