One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

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

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

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

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