Good things never last, bad things never die.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.