Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

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.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.