I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

I love karaoke; you have to wail when you do karaoke.

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online.

What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.

I don't think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips... Or any other body part.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.