Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

Lucky to have been where I have been

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.