Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

You can't do better than that.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

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.