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 grew up around songwriters and artists in Laurel Canyon, with more vinyl than shelf space and guitars and pianos nobody minded me playing. I've been writing songs and making records ever since.

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

Songs still arrive 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 what I've lived through. It has to go somewhere, and for me it goes into songs.

I also founded the Goffin & King Foundation, which brings emerging songwriters together for retreats in places that have inspired me: Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Abbey Road, Joshua Tree. A cross-generational community has grown out of it.

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