I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.