To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.