Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

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.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

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.