More Than Accepted, It's Encouraged

When You First Sit Down To Write The First Song, Until You've Maybe Got Three Or Four Under Your Belt, It's Always, To Me, Like A Mountain To Climb. You Look At That One Blank Piece Of Paper And You Think, `god, How Many Songs Do I Have To Write Here?' It Always Feels Like Pressure.

Songwriting Is A Mysterious Art. When I Sit Down To Write A Song, The End Result Should Be Mysterious And Have This Dark Quality.

Record Covers Helped Me Discover A Lot Of Music That I Wasn't Aware Of.

I Want People To Feel Good About Listening To This [delta Machine] Record, To Get Some Kind Of Peace. It's Just Got Something Magical About It.

I Was Born With The Wrong Sign In The Wrong House With The Wrong Ascendancy I Took The Wrong Road That Led To The Wrong Tendencies I Was In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time For The Wrong Reason And The Wrong Rhyme On The Wrong Day Of The Wrong Week Used The Wrong Method With The Wrong Technique Wrong Wrong.