I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.
I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.
Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.
With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?
I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.
When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.
Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.
I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time.
I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.
I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.
If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.
All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.
I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
