I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.