I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.