The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

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.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

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.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

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