I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

You can't get better at things you never play.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

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

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.