When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal lif….

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo.".

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she….

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it wa….

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's….

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head..

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning..

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is..

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was real….

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well..

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I d….

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics..

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story..

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them..

My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, an….

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, c….

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I….

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Water….

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all..

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Griml….

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would pr….