I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.