Occupation: Songwriter Birth: October 22, 1978
I think there is a fascination with choral music in general..
I've always loved to sing with somewhat vague lyrics so people can have their own interpretation and find their own meaning with it. I've become a bi….
I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better..
People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid..
One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or s….
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days..
It seems to be really trendy to get excited about a random-ass radio song. Which, I like radio songs, don't get me wrong. But I'm just confused at wh….
One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship a….
It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular person….
I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And thi….
I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off….
There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody….
My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singi….
I don't want to do a gimmick. It's a bummer that that's how it is. I would say, personally speaking, consuming music now is harder than it was before….
It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into s….
Every album has a thing where it's like, "How are we going to marry our four ideas and personalities?" The older we get, the more people become comfo….
I feel like there's not as many bands anymore. It's more like there's a front-person and a band supporting them, solo-type spirits that have a look, ….
I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?….
I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally….
I have the right to speak up. If you don't want to listen, just unfollow. If you're so upset about it you can't even listen to my music, because you'….