I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.