Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.