You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

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

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

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