So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it's just gonna be a blank page.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.