Everyone Wants To Feel That They Matter.

Not My Biggest Fear, But My Biggest Problem Onstage Is Over-emphasizing What I Do. I'm Pushing Too Hard. You Need To Engage An Audience. They Need To Be Able To Involve Their Own Imaginations As Well. They Don't Need Everything Thrust Down Their Throat, And I Have A Tendency To Do That. I Always Have Had A Tendency To Do That.

I've Spent My Life Butting My Head Against Other People's Lack Of Imagination.

I Was Reading The Bible A Lot Through My 20s, Mostly The Old Testament, Just Because I Was Knocked Out By The Language And The Stories. I Felt That The God Being Talked About There, Who Was This Insane, Vindictive Patriarch - It Was Kind Of Thrilling, And Titillated Something In Me At The Time.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.

The More Settled I've Become, The More Problematic My Characters Have Become. There Was A Period When I Wrote Sensitive And Gentle Songs And These Came At A Time When Life Was At Its Most Destructive. I Think You Write About What You Need, On Some Level.