You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it..

I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... s….

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music..

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired..

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it..

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scr….

I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's ok….

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home..

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I'….

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath..

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind..

I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet..

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced..

I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am….

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony..

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay..

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I….

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before..

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them..

I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit….