For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.