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

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

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

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.

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.