I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.