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

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.