At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

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

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.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

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

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.