As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

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.

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