I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.