Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

It's important to face down your demons.

I've spent several years now with my head down.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.