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You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.