My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.