Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?