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

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

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'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

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