I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.