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

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

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

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.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.