An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.