Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.