I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.

I don't hold anything against Barack Obama. I just think the system is so corrupt, it doesn't matter how well-intentioned someone is, as I believe he was and is. At the end of the day, I think it just comes down to money. This is all about class warfare. All of our political problems.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.