Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

The more nervous I am, and the more insane a situation is, the more I love it and get addicted to it. That's why I love playing on stage. And I kind of freak out if I don't get to do it, because it's a big part of my sanity, I think.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.