People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.