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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't try to preserve your energy. Rather, think of a worthwhile purpose in life and burn yourself up.... for that's what is satisfying and fulfilling.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

You can only look forward as far as you can look back.

Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.