If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.