I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

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.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

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