I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.