I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

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.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.