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.

Time and time again I can't please myself.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.