Im Really Good At Writing Almost Hits.

Because I Write Very Simply, But Inside The Simplicity, There's A Lot Of Subtlety. That's What I'm Proud Of.

The Less I Talk In Bars, Write Emails, Express Myself In An Emotionally Lewd Way Outside Of My Songwriting, The More I Have To Do It Through My Music.

The Piano Is Just A Different Animal. It's Expensive, It's Big, It's Heavy, And It Doesn't Fit In The Mix Easily. Everyone Grew Up With A Piano In Their Living Room, So Rocking Out On The Piano Was Accessible - It Wasn't An Upper-class Thing. Now Pianos Have Become Very Much A Piece Of Furniture.

I Used To Do This Big Rant At The End Of Some Gigs With Ben Folds Five. The Band Broke Into This Big Heavy Metal Thing And I Started As A Joke To Scream In A Heavy Metal Falsetto. I Found Myself Saying Things Like: Feel My Pain, I Am White, Feel My Pain.

I Think People Use Temp Music Quite A Bit, But The People Who Write The Temp Music Don't Ever Really Learn That Their Music Was Inspiring A Movie.