I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

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've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

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

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.