I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

You're always you, with your own insecurities.

Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.

The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.

What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.