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

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.