Happy birthday to my best friend, who is definitely still learning a lot every day. I think of you sometimes when I'm writing about the feels I know we share. I wish you only the best, the most enlightening, and also the most intense and absurd so that you'll have very good stories to tell next time I see you.

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​I wrote this song after the first (and only?) time I was ever broken up with. I realized later that I was much happier on my own, but at the time I was just trying to make sense of that new, strange feeling—the feeling of not being wanted.

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I wrote this song back when I was first learning guitar. That's why my strumming sounds so good. I'm much worse at it now!

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I wrote this song about my friend and a guy he was dating. It's not clear to me if this is about the way I felt about one or both of them, or if I was trying to guess how they felt, or what. Anyway, it's a hell of a fun song to sing, but I hate listening to it.

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I've made few really cool changes to this song since I recorded this. There's, like, slides and shit. For real. Plus, I once played this song on ukulele on a beach in Florida. That was so bourgie.

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This has always been the one of my songs that people seem to like best, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. It's good, I guess, but it's just definitely not my favorite. Plus, I'm shit at the guitar. Huh.

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I wrote this song late one night while I was visiting my parents. First I wrote all the words in my head while lying in the guest bed. Then I crept out of bed and downstairs to the piano and very quietly wrote this song, one nearly silent key at a time, in the middle of the night.

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I absolutely love this song. I tried simplifying it even more, and guess what? It worked. This song has room enough in it for both belting and playing a single key at a time. I know; I tested it.

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Today is the first one-year anniversary I've ever had.. It's also the first time I dated a woman. So, of course, this song is all about her…and me…and our strange past and amazing future. Happy anniversary, baby girl.

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I wrote this song as a concept piece when a friend asked me to do the soundtrack to his short film. It never made it onto the project proper, but it's now one of my text tones, so… still pretty cool, yeah?

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