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.

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

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.