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I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.