One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

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

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.