New York exists for me. Not me for it.

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?