I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.