Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

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.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

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