As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.