I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I really do think everybody can sing.

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.

What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.