I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

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.