How does living in Seattle influence your sophista-sound?
The weather here always makes sense for my music. Although I do all my writing alone in California, the summers are unbearable there. I stay indoors and work a lot, it does really effects my introverted music. I make sure there's no light coming in, except when I'm recording. When I start that recording process, my guitar player Javier Suarez comes in and adds new guitar lines to the songs. That's when I can be in the producer's chair and orchestrate, I do enjoy that part.
You're a 5 piece group; would you say you are good friends?
These guys are my favorite line-up so far. We're all best friends and pretty sensitive, subtle people. We make sure we're all ok ourselves to make a strong bond. The last tour has been like a summer vacation for us, we get to do all the stuff we like. Being on the road we like to read a lot, that's what we share and enjoy while traveling together.