Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.