You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.