I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.