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

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.

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.

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

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't go to school; the only thing I know how to do is this. The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.