Mix a torch song, a dust storm, and a well-thumbed paperback, give it a voice, then turn on the night until it answers.

I'm a singer, songwriter, and record producer. I live in Los Angeles. I produced my mother's Christmas album, which was nominated for a Grammy.

I grew up around songwriters and artists in Laurel Canyon, with more vinyl than shelf space and guitars and pianos nobody minded me delaying homework to play. I've been writing songs since I was eight, and in recording studios before I can remember.

If you want to know me as an artist, I'd start with my album Bad Little Animals, my first record as an independent artist, which was twenty years after my first major label deal. Everything since then has felt like my real beginning.

Songs tend to come faster than I can gather them into albums, so I release new ones every few months while I work on the next record. Writing is how I make sense of the life I've lived, the questions, the answers and the struggle in between.

I also love collaborating with other artists. Lina Beach and I have a side project, a duo named "Lina & Louise". We first crossed paths at Royal Studios in Memphis, working with producer Boo Mitchell, and we've made music together in Memphis, London, Argentina, Muscle Shoals, Nashville and Los Angeles.

The Goffin & King Foundation is a nonprofit I founded to bring songwriters together in a way that bypasses the isolation of the streaming and social media era. A labor of love, its community has a life of its own. Writing in trios across eleven studios in places that have inspired me, from Memphis and Muscle Shoals to Abbey Road and Joshua Tree, its songwriters have written more than 250 songs and played fifteen live shows and counting.

I'm on the most exciting creative ride I've ever been on, and I'm glad you're here.