"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

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"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."

Life

"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."

Sister

"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Talk

"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

Attention

"Love's a recurring theme through my work."

Work

"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."

End

"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."

Talking

"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."

Control

"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

Death

"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."

Feelings