Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I don't like begging money from producers.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.