Music is like a huge release of tension.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.