Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.