I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

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

I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

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.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.