I've Been Practicing For Years, Trying To

I Didn't Want To Be On A Major Label. I Wanted All The Attention And The Noise To Go Away Because I Wanted To Be Something A Little Bit More Substantial.

Sometimes Things In Life Take A Few Years To Digest, And They Find Their Way Into The Work Later On. Sometimes I'm Writing About Things From Eight Years Ago-they Just Took A Long Time To Distill And Come Out In The Appropriate Way.

It's So Easy To Criticize Your Own Time, And I See That As A Problem, Even For Myself, As A Listener.

When My Nephew Was 3 And 4, He Would Say The Most Genius Things. He Said, You're Hammer Macho With Fbi Dogs. I Thought It Was Just One Of Those Great Lines.

Sometimes, I Think The Way The Music Business Has Been Destructive And The Way The Fans Are Been Put Through It And Try To Navigate Through It, So Much Is So Foreign To What Musicians Would Actually Want To Do Or What Would Be Natural To Them.