I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.