I don't want to sound like everybody else.

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.

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.

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.

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

I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

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