I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

I love music so much; I've always played.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.