I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.