The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.

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

I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

We all come back to our little worlds.

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

I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.