Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

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

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

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.

When I say nothing, I say everything