For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.

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

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.