After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

Don't believe everything you are told, if it resonates within you, then listen and act.

We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation.

Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.