I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

You can go on losing after loss.

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He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Winning is the best deodorant.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.