Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.