Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.