If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.