People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

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.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

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.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.