Zitate

People I've never even met before have told me, "You have this knack for writing songs that I could see myself listening to 20 years down the line." I want to write songs that are like John Huston's films, which hold up well over time and never become dated. I think that the more honest you are in what you write, the greater the odds that what you write is going to be timeless. Honest emotion doesn't have a half-life; neither should honest songwriting.

Music is an enormous passion for me. Music is not what I do. It's who I am.

[on his musical philosophy] If something holds an inner truth to you then it holds that truth to everybody. Emotion isn't something that anybody owns, [nor] is philosophy for that matter.

[on portraying villains] It's certainly a lot more fun to play the bad guy. It's a lot easier to play, and I really like the mischievous side of it.