No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand..

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life..

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into s….

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read.".

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound….

Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out….

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on….

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band ….

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common wi….

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of real….

Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something ….

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York..

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing ….

I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mug….

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up..

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four ye….

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewar….

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such ….

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day..

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you h….

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want….