I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

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

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.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

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

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.