I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.