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.

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 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.

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I don't love men that love other women. I think more of myself then that.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.