When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they're saying, "Well, you're offered a whole lot of money to do this," and it's like, well, I do want the money, but I don't really do that - like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn't really what I do. It feels weird to me.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.