Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up a different intensity in my head, one where I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.