I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

Of course there are influences, of course there are things that are inspiring, but it's weird to think that I'm trying to keep a mental inventory of them and report them clearly to whomever might ask.

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

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?