I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.