You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

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.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.