As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

It's not illegal to be an asshole.