I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

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.