Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

The devil wanders into my soul.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.