I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.