I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables