I’ve never known a man who loved me.

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.

There's nothing cutting edge about what I'm trying to do. I'm not creating a new sound. I'm not like Bjork, who's an alien from another world. I'm of the earth. You could extract any measure of music out of anything I've ever done and you could find its affiliations in music history.