You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

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

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

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

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

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.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.