Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.