I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.

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

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

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