One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work and it creates this strange connection. It's really a way of strangers communicating through this third thing, which is a body of work. But really, I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.