I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I'll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids. I'm not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that's where people want to hear me play, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.