My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.