If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.