I treat Hollywood as my high school.

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.