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.

People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.