You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.