During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

You gain much more from your enemies than friends.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.