Q: What inspired you to write new canaan?
A: the train map in penn station. i know that doesn't make sense because they informed me at penn station that they don't have a train that goes to new canaan, and the train to new canaan is from grand central. so i went to grand central. but the idea to take trains to places i had never been and write songs along the way was an idea that i had in penn station, several weeks before i wrote any of them