I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.