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.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

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

I am an American aquarium drinker.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.