I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the _x000D_ _x000D_ past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I _x000D_ _x000D_ just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.