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

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

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.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state