I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.