People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

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

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.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.