I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

If people read poetry, they would be happier.

The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.