This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.