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

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

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.

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.