I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.