You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

I'm pretty proud of everything I've done.

Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.

I always liked to make something creative.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.