When you write songs, you can’t really point out the exact thing you’re inspired by. It’s more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you’re trying to put into words.

I’m always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it’s just an hour and a half and then once it’s over it’s over.

I think it’s very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don’t mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...

It’s just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that’s probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can’t sleep I read books or watch movies.

I don’t have a favorite place to play.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won’t come out that way – it’ll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don’t really control that.

I like to capture moments. It’s like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don’t remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.