I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

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.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.