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

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 really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.

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.

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

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 life after being so busy.

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 Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out

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

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

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

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

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 probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

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 was the catchiest and easiest.

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