I Enjoy Recording Live Better, But I

When I Pull Out Vinyl - Which Isn't That Often Anymore - It's Undeniable That I Get A Different Feeling. There's A Different Physiology Happening Between The Sound Waves And The Body That Doesn't Happen With Music Playing Off The Computer.

I Think You Have To Keep A Childlike Quality To Play Music Or Make A Record.

The Years Keep Going By And You Realize, Wow. Doing These Records Is Such A Process: Going On Tour For A Year And A Half, Then You Get Home And You Want To Do Other Things.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

There's Some Quality You Get When You're Not Totally Comfortable. When You're Not Doing What You're Used To, You Could Completely Fall On Your Face. You Could Completely Blow It.