In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.