I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals.

The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.

Time goes on even when we do not.