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

This is a transitory world, we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it, and holding on. Even if it's a moment it's true love, true love doesn't mean that it goes on for eternity. Eternity is a terrible concept.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

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

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.

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.