It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.