I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.