I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.