There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's not where you got it from, it's where you take it." To me, that's just an integral part of why I even bother making music. I don't mind that I've created an identity around what I do.

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.