I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can insert a tampon. No, I do it because I want to take a brain bath. It's like a hot whirlpool for my brain, in a brain space that is 100 percent agreeable with itself.

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.