I don't know what people want. I have delusions of grandeur, but I'm not sitting here talking to you and thinking that I'm the goddamn President. I w….

Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I'd load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Chris….

The truth is, all products - mine included - will take you away from yourself. You can listen to this music and think its pretty cool - or not - but ….

Sometimes I wish it were a simpler world. I love and hate people. When I say I hate people, I really truly mean it. Sometimes I think everyone should….

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..

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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'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..

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….

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….

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….

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 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'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 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..

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 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….