Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

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

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

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.

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.