I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

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.

It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

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.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.