My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

I see bodies as individual things.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.