My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.