Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.