I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

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

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

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

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 focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.