No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.