When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.