For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.