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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

I'm a product of my environment.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

And we'll dazzle them all

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

It's not illegal to be an asshole. It's not illegal to be racist, even. It's not illegal to do anything.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

My music has always been my solo project.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.