Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

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

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

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

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.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.