I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

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.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.