I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.