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.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.