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

God, our world is so complicated.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

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.

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

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