I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

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

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

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

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.