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I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

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Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

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I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.

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As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

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I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

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My work is has always been very, very personal.

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In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

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France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

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The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.

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I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 8th, 1975

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