I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

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.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

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

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."

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.