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 feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

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 think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.