What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.