I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

Strength isn't about what you can and cannot achieve. It’s about what you will and will not do in order to achieve.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.

We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all.

Family over friends, because real friends are family

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.