Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.