I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.