When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

Sometimes life is not kind, and most times we have to hurt deeply in order to find out how strong and determined we really are.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Years do not always make age.

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.