I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.