I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.