I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

[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.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

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

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

You don't want to be conscious of everything.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.