My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.