The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.