Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.