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.

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

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