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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.