I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.