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.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

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.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.