I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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.