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I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.