I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
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