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.

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

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.