I Use To Be Panicked,

When You're Young, You Get Sad, And You Get High.

I Got On The Phone With The President Of My Label And I Said, "obviously, I Write Songs In A Lot Of Styles And Play A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Music. We're Getting Toward The End Of Our Business Collaboration. If You Could Envision A Record That You Wanted To Hear From Me, What Kind Of Record Would It Be?" It Wasn't Like Asking Him To Fill An Order, It Was Really Just A Conversation. For All The Things I'd Ever Asked Him, This Was One Thing I'd Never Asked, And I Don't Know Why. So I Was Curious. And The Thing That He Was Most Interested In Hearing Was A Solo Record.

What I Love Most In Life Happens To Be The Very Thing That I Do Day-to-day, As My Work. What Would Be My Hobby, You Know, Happens To Be My Actual Job. So I'm Very Lucky. Even If I Didn't Want To Do As Much Work As I Do, I'd Still Feel Compelled To, Because I So Longed To Be A Full-time Artist, And Since I've Been Given That Opportunity, I'd Never Want To Let Down The Gift.

I'm Not The Cool Thing, And I'm Not Going To Be The Cool Thing For A Really Long Time, And It Isn't Like I'm Not The Cool Thing And I Sell 3,000,000 Records Every Time. I'm Not The Cool Thing, And I Barely Sell 150,000 Records, If That, Ever. So I'm Obviously Working Really Hard To Sustain Myself. I'm Actually A Target To Be Dropped, Because That's Just Not Enough Records For A Big Company.

I Like The Idea That Within The Structure Of The Song, Some Kind Of Built-in Improvisation Keeps Them Fragile And In Their Moment, So That I'm Not Projecting So Much, So That My Perception Of The Song Doesn't Interfere With What Its Real Body Is. Sometimes It's Like Telling A Story That I Heard In Passing, And I Don't Want It To Become Completely Mine.