Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.