I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

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 think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

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