I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.