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

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

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 probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.