All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.