Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

I sang in choir as a kid.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.