I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'