I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.