I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.