Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.