My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

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