You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.
A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.