I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

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

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.