I'm Always Looking For Older Equipment And

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.

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.

You Spend So Many Months And Years In The Studio, And You See The Clock Ticking And So Much Time Spent On The Minutiae Of Technical Things. And I Just Thought It'd Be Fun To Do Something Extremely Fast And Get That Rush Of Something That Had Some Energy, Something That You Weren't Tired Of When You Finished It.

I Did That Grammys Thing - I Did A Little Freeform Poem.

It's Hard To Make Music Knowing That It's Not Going To Be Received By The Listener In The Way That It Should Be.