Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

An angry person is always full of poison.

I am looking for an honest man.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

Drop dead-but first get permit

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.