People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

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

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

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.