The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.