Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

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