Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

I'd hate wearing suits every day.