My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.