With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.