Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.