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

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

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

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.