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

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

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

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

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

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.