I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.