I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.