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

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.

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.

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.

It's important to face down your demons.