Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

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.

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 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.

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.

Music is the literature of the heart

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.