I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s..

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste..

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations..

I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, th….

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover..

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s -….

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me..

When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain ab….

When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing..

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far of….

If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you..

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people..

I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism….

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?.

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess..

I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to ….

Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music..

The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or ….

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful..

I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really ….

I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always….