Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there. That's what I have to remind myself of. But I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe. I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.