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

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.

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.

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

I admire American ideas.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.