The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens that being on stage makes me extremely uncomfortable.

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I'd load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.

I love Lana Del Rey! It's weird because I read something that said, "Oh, Willis Earl Beal and Lana Del Rey are the antithesis of each other." When in fact, she was what I wanted to sound like.

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.

I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting.

Always explore new opportunities and ideas, you never know which will work for you

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.