I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.