When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

You're my favorite mistake

I got to learn to surf.

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad