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 really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

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.

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.

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