I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

Greatness is bought with time and so is financial prosperity.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

We have no healthcare and we have all the guns in the world, it makes you think twice before you start throwing punches in a bar.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth...

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

The only one you get even with is yourself.

Day One: Still tired from the move.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.