It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.("The Wide Net")

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

A brave arm makes a short sword long.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.