I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

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

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.