Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.