I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'