There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I try not to do anything by formula.