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

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

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.