Tift merritt

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give...

My work is has always been very, very personal.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.