For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.