That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

All my songs are where I am.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.