To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.