I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.