I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

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.

I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

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

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.