If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.

And I've always loved playing solo.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.