I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

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.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.