I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.