You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, bec….

I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about..

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird be….

I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It w….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism..