To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.

I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.