I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

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.