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

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

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.

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.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.