Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.

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.

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

You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.