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 don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

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.