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 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 is twenty years after my first major label deal. Everything since then has felt like my real beginning, when I wasn’t following what record companies thought I should be.

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 of in between.

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.