Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.