When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.