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.

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

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

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.

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"