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.

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

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

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.