I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

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