I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.