I Do Think That When You Make

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 Used To Do This Big Rant At The End Of Some Gigs With Ben Folds Five. The Band Broke Into This Big Heavy Metal Thing And I Started As A Joke To Scream In A Heavy Metal Falsetto. I Found Myself Saying Things Like: Feel My Pain, I Am White, Feel My Pain.

If You Can't Draw A Crowd, Draw Dicks On The Wall

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.

The Piano Is Just A Different Animal. It's Expensive, It's Big, It's Heavy, And It Doesn't Fit In The Mix Easily. Everyone Grew Up With A Piano In Their Living Room, So Rocking Out On The Piano Was Accessible - It Wasn't An Upper-class Thing. Now Pianos Have Become Very Much A Piece Of Furniture.