I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.