The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

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.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.