For me, experimenting involves traditionalism..

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me..

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation..

I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you….

I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or ….

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

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention..

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe..

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. N….

I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty..

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

You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' accept….

I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that di….

I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What i….

When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure ….

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all..

A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people hap….

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out..

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something..

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

I've been going through a lot of... stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. N….