I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way.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.

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

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.

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