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I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.