I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Works of art make rules

Negative actions cannot create a positive life.

Your life is not a simulation

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.