Ariel Rechtshaid

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.