Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

There's this process that comes about in writing a song where you just stop and see where it can go. Generally, a song will stay with the same idea. I might be thinking about a particular person, for instance. Then it will kind of go from there. And maybe by the end of the song, it will become something more universal.

Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.

If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.