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.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.