The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.