If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

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