People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.