Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.