When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.

Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.