I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.

It's hard: you get older, you have a career, the normal frustrations that come with what you do when you wear your heart on your sleeve and you try really heard. I was exhausted, and I couldn't quite see the magic of creating at that time. That's all. I couldn't get into it, and Andy [Kim] slowly resuscitated me, and that's how I made Darlings.