I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

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.

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.