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

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

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

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 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.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.