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.

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

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

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