I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.