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

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.

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.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.