My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.