I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

Opportunities don’t make U turns.

Is that actually you or am I dreaming again?

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?