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.

I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

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.

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

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

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