You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.