I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.