“For me, songwriting is a mystery. I think I wrote songs, in the beginning, when I was a kid, because in some sense I “had” to…in order to exorcise difficult emotions, or maybe just to feel them more deeply. But as the years went on I continued to write songs as a way to communicate with people. I felt like I was able to communicate more of what I wanted to say through a song than through direct conversation. These days I write music, still, in order to feel and communicate, but also to play, like a child.”