I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

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.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

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