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.

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.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

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.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

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