A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.