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People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.