By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.