The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall

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

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.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.