We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

There were a couple of times where I shot things, or started off in one mode and thought, "Well, I really didn't want to do that." I would just change my mind. And frankly, I don't think anybody really cared. I didn't have some producer that had given me $10 million, demanding results. I could just kind of do whatever I thought was right, and move in that way.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.