Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.