“Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control.”

“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”

“I can’t think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else’s expectations of what you should be. You don’t make art by consensus.”

“We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.”

“People’s real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you’re not sure what you really want or what you even really need.”

“At this point in my life I’d like to live as if only love mattered.”