Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.