Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.