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

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.