I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

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.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.