I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

It's hard for people to see how they can change how dismal things look, but there are still wonderful things to sing about. Music is the only way we are capable of talking about the most important things.