When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie..

They don't make coats for this kind of cold.

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did bec….

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mea….

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me..

Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. ….

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move m….

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicat….

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experien….

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just w….

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being ….

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your ….

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not pr….

For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual ….

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find o….

I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to somet….

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music..

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the s….

I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cig….

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time..

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records..