Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors.