If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.