Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.