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

Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

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.

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

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

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.