I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

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 take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.