In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.