Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.