We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

I embrace the idea that I’m an entertainer.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn’t know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren’t making fun of Kylie.

It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It’s loss would create a very large black hole.

I think if you’re lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

Most artists I run into aren’t that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

A lot of times I’ll doodle on something while I’m doing interviews, because sometimes I’m on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I’ll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.

I think that’s what centers me the most – all my people, all my animals.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let’s cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one’s own tail. That’s not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.