If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.