SAN DIEGO — Many of Jack Johnson's songs are soft and lilting, but he credits being periodically fatalistic as a key to his now 21-year-long music career.
"I have to trick myself into thinking every album is my last one," said the professional surfer-turned-singer-songwriter.
"I find I write better when I'm not thinking about performing — or when I'm thinking that people may not ever hear the songs I'm writing."
