For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.