You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

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.

There's probably not any kind of music that means more to me than gospel and soul. I heard somebody say that soul music is being proud of where you're from and what you've accomplished, and letting that show. Losing some self-consciousness and ego to join something larger. I like that idea a lot, just letting it all hang out, and on this album we did our best at that.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

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

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.