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 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.

Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

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.

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

I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.