All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

Life is a sacred book.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.