The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens that being on stage makes me extrem….

Nobody symbol occurred to me one night at my grandmother's house. The eyes are an inversion of X'd out eyes - the man is enlightened. His teeth are c….

I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thi….

I feel totally disconnected from reality in Washington. Maybe I'm just really pretentious - in fact, I probably am - but I feel like people in this c….

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want….

If the only thing that you want to do is make money - if that's your whole motivation - I think you're lying to yourself. If the only motivation you ….

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star..

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie c….

One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to me, and I'm sitting in th….

I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these p….

I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting..

I'm very curious about people, and one of the most difficult truths for me to accept as a person is that I'll never be anyone else, and I will never ….

I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that. My favorite phrase is "It takes a l….

I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them license….

It always fascinates me how you can get so much joy listening to another person, when me, personally, I can only listen to myself and my music these ….

I never actually sexually attacked anybody. But I'm a writer, too, and I was always trying to figure out a way to recreate the experience of being th….

You got this new breed of hipster chicks and hipster men that don't understand anything about sacrifice. They didn't lay it on the line. People like ….

The person on the shrine is myself. I listen to my own music constantly. I made a whole other record already. I look at myself on the internet consta….

As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've always felt that that stuff was bullshit. It's g….

What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but all the while realizing the c….

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing..