I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

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

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.