People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.