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

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

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

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

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

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.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.