You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

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.

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

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

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

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.