If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.