To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.