Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts online that aren't going to get me in trouble. I'll save the rest for myself." It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, "Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries." So I thought, "Well, let's see what happens when I post some of it."

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.