I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.