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

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

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

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

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

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

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.