And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
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.
If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit
I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do
For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit
I started playing music at a pretty young age
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
I make the kind of music I like
I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record
