When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

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

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.