Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

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 pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

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

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.