Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't just stop. I drew a line in the calendar and made it a brick wall and just stopped dead. There was no other way. It would've taken another 100 years to slow down slowly. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.