As long as you have imagination, you never need to work. You never get bored. You could just walk around and go to museums and check out new movies. You could be busy in New York city for 10,000 years.

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. I like my music to be very musical.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

I'm just kind of sick of music. I don't know what I want to do. It's not that I feel suicidal or anything, but I just want to end this life. I just want to be somebody else now. Sometimes I feel like that. You always think, "If I just cut my hair really short and dye it brown and put on a little goatee, no one would know it was me, and I could..."