The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I thought I could do it kind of quick since songs that I love a lot I can do fast.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.