Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.