I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider statu….

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to….

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars..

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I….

How do we let people pay for music?.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed an….

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to..

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable..

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down..

I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion ….

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth ….

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand….

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow..

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life..

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes..

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it..

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my ….

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out..

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize..