There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.