I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.