We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.