This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.