If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.