It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
If you feel like singing along, don't.
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.