Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.