What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

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

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

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

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

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