I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age.
I'm just used to the L.A. music life.
I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.
It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.
I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
Nobody wants a complainer.
If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine.
I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.
I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.
No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways.
There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes.
When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.
If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.
After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength.
When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.
Influence is all osmosis.
There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.
