For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.