It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

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