There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

Death swallows death.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.

Simple is the only way I can write.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Cook more often. Don't study; just cook.

It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.