When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

We're all human and life is complicated.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.