It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

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

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

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.