There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

This world is a little dark, and I am LIGHTS.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.