Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

A man destined to hang can never drown

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.