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

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

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.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

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

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