I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

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

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.