When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

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

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

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.