It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

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.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

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

I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

I have a very strong belief in God.