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.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

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.