I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.