People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.