Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

I'm definitely happy with everything I've done. I stand behind it. You'll always be saying, "Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently." But you have to let it be what it is.

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.

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.