I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom's room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

I didn't have a record player.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.