I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.