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

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

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.

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 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.