I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.