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

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't use the Internet"; unfortunately, that is not an option. The Internet is where we make our living and where we make our work, especially if we're independents and we cannot afford to not engage, because that's where our business is driving from. It's just not an option.