There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.

Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

Don't Worry, Be Hapi.