Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.