It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.