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

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

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

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

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

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.