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

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

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

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

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

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