It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see Baywatch.

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.

You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Can I go forward when my heart is here?