I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

I came out around 25 publicly.