As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

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.

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

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.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

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.

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