With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.