I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

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.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.