Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.