We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

I don't get mad too much.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Actors are frightened little children.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.