When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.