I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.