My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.