"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman."
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
If I feel comfortable with what I'm doing, something's wrong.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
I've found that every time I've made a radical change, it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.