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.

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

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

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

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

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