I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.