Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.

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

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.