Sea Change Was So Specific. From The

It Gets A Little Bit Troublesome When You Have Something That's Overcompressed That Shouldn't Be.

Somebody Else Is Satisfied By Five Bentleys. I'm Satisfied By A Beautiful String Arrangement.

For The Records I've Work On Over The Last 10 Years, I Get Sent The Really Compressed Version And The Non-compressed Version, And Oftentimes You End Up Going With The More Compressed One Because It's What People's Ears Are Attuned To. I Think The Bigger Problem Is Saturation And People Being Desensitized.

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.

The Only Way I Was Allowed To Play Was By Convincing Bands To Let Me Do A Few Songs While They Set Up. That Went On For Years.