The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.