We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

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.

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

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.