Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.