Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.