You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.