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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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