cause down the shore everything's all right

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.