I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

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

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

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.