I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.