I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the w….

About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and ….

The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small….

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever ….

What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then….

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual ….

A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power ….

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes..

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that..

It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say..

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have..

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is no….

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and n….

When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an an….

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they co….

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspirat….

There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. Th….

I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I c….

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like ….

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art..

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write ab….