I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.

Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.

There's a hundred million different ways of writing, and it takes you a long time to sort through that stuff. And I think it takes anyone a long time to find a voice.

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.