My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.