I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.