We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

...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.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.