The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

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

I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.