This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.