I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.
They don't put any pressure on me to do anything in particular and Dreamworks didn't either so this was a really easy record to make.
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record
I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.
I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks
I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know.