Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.

I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough incentive.

Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.