I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

A life that is happy and has no money, is better then a life unhappy with money.

Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast.

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.