I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?