Time and time again I can't please myself.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.