The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out of that because I can finish the song really quickly. I can use whatever momentum I have. I've got to put it down, develop it, and get it as far [as I can], because the excitement of the moment of when you get that idea - you want to try and hold it and build on it and really gain strength from it. Being in the studio and writing songs like that is really the best way.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.