I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.