I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.

I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.