I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

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