My Songwriting Is Like Extending A Hand

I'm Happy That I Have My Family, And I'm Happy That I Had Virginia, Where I Grew Up, To Retreat To Any Time I Felt Overwhelmed. Whenever There Were Times When I Felt Like The Rug Was Being Pulled Out From Under Me And I Was Floating In This Crazy Space, I Would Stop And Go Back To That Neighborhood And Realize Nothing's Changed, Really.

Some People Record Onto Tape, And Then They Pay For The Tape, And Download Those Onto A Hard Drive. Initially In A Pro Tools Program. Other People Go Straight Into Digital, And Use No Tape At All.

It's Funny, There Aren't Too Many Musicians That Also Moonlight As Studio Engineers. There's A Few - The Really Brilliant Ones.

It's Not Until Recently That I Could Even Imagine Myself As An Adult. But These Kids Today, They Look At Me Like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana Is The Band Their Parents Listen To.

My Mother Was A Public School Teacher In Virginia, And We Didn't Have Any Money, We Just Survived On Happiness, On Being A Happy Family.