I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.