I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.

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

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

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

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