I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.