I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.