I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.